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  The purpose and goal of brain mapping is to advance the understanding of the relationship between structure and function in the human brain. Scientists in this field seek to gain knowledge of the physical processes that underlie human sensation, attention awareness and cognition. These results are immediately applicable to surgical intervention, to the design of medical interventions and to the treatment of psychological and psychiatric disorders.

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05/23
NIH scientists discover molecule triggers sensation of itch
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05/22
NIH researchers conduct first genomic survey of human skin fungal diversity
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05/22
Taming suspect gene reverses schizophrenia-like abnormalities in mice
Scientists have reversed behavioral and brain abnormalities in adult mice that resemble some feature…
05/22
NIH funds studies to improve type 2 and prediabetes treatment
The National Institutes of Health is looking for volunteers to take part in one of three clinical tr…
05/21
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): Large Scale T Cell Epitope Discovery BAA-NIAID-DAIT-NIH-AI-2013167
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05/21
NINR welcomes five new members to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research
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05/21
A molecular explanation for age-related fertility decline in women
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05/14
Results of the ROTAVAC Rotavirus Vaccine Study in India
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05/13
Flu in pregnancy may quadruple child's risk for bipolar disorder
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05/08
NIH statement on Asthma Awareness Month 2013
For Asthma Awareness Month 2013, the National Institutes of Health stands with the international com…
05/06
Women's, Men's brains respond differently to hungry infant's cries
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have uncovered firm evidence for what many mother…
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05/24
Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon: Measures all the light in the universe since the Big Bang
Radiation from all galaxies that ever existed suffuses the Universe with a diffuse extragalactic bac…
05/24
A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?
In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists focused -- among other factors …
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Addictive Behaviour - A Choice Or A Brain Disease?
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05/24
Breakthrough on Huntington's disease
Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's dise…
05/24
Scientists Develop Worm EEG To Test The Effects Of Drugs
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The secret lives, and deaths, of neurons
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05/24
New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies
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Going live -- immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis
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Help at hand for schizophrenics
Researchers from the Bergen fMRI Group at the University of Bergen are working on how to help schizo…
05/24
Visual Test Associated With High IQ
Optical illusions have long been used in neuroscience to point out perceptions into how the brain f…
05/24
Treatment For Cocaine Addiction In Animal Model
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unraveled the molecular foundations of cocaine's effects on the br…
05/24
Understanding the past and predicting the future by looking across space and time
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Facial-recognition technology proves its mettle
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Regenerating spinal cord fibers may be treatment for stroke-related disabilities
A study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital found "substantial evidence" that a regenerative proce…
05/23
Researchers Find Potential Brain 'Switch' For Behavior Change
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05/23
Complex Brain Function Depends On Flexibility
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05/23
How Disruption Caused By Premature Birth Can Lead To Conditions Such As Autism And Learning Difficulties
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05/23
Regenerating spinal cord fibers may be treatment for stroke-related disabilities
A study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital found "substantial evidence" that a regenerative proce…
05/23
MRI-Based Measurement Helps Predict Vascular Disease in the Brain
Using MRI neuroimaging technology, researchers were able to predict the risk for cerebrovascular dis…
05/23
Breakthrough on Huntington's disease
Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's dise…
05/23
New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies
Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV…
05/22
Scientists Develop Worm EEG to Test the Effects of drugs
Researchers have developed a device which records the brain activity of worms in order to test the e…
05/22
Innate lymphoid cells regulate CD4+ T-cell responses to intestinal commensal bacteria
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05/22
Structural basis of histone H2A?H2B recognition by the essential chaperone FACT
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05/22
Barium distributions in teeth reveal early-life dietary transitions in primates
Early-life dietary transitions reflect fundamental aspects of primate evolution and are important de…
05/21
The Interactive Effects On Neurocognition Of Alcohol Consumption, Smoking And Age
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05/20
Physicist's Tool Has Potential For Brain Mapping
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05/20
Association Between Genetic Risk For Schizophrenia And Reduced IQ
The relationship between the heritable risk for schizophrenia and low intelligence (IQ) has not been…
05/20
Scientists Identify Another Gene Important To Morning Wake-Up Call
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05/19
The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks
When an animal is performing a cognitive task, individual neurons in the prefrontal cortex show a mi…
05/19
Structural basis for alternating access of a eukaryotic calcium/proton exchanger
Eukaryotic Ca2+ regulation involves sequestration into intracellular organelles, and expeditious Ca2…
05/15
Structure-guided discovery of the metabolite carboxy-SAM that modulates tRNA function
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05/15
Hofstadter?s butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moiré superlattices
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05/12
Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome
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05/12
De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease
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05/12
Crystal structure of a nitrate/nitrite exchanger
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05/10
UCLA Headlines May 10, 2013
IN THE NEWS: UCLA Neuroscientists Move to USC to Establish New Institute The Los Angeles Times …
05/09
Chancellor Block comments on Laboratory of Neuro Imaging
UCLA is among the world?s great research enterprises, testing boundaries and producing new knowledge…
04/30
NeuroPod: April 2013
Making the brain see-through, treating disorders with electrical impulses, wonky statistics riddle n…
04/28
Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning
The ability of signalling proteins to traverse tissues containing tightly packed cells is of fundame…
04/01
In search of the functional neuroanatomy of sociality: MRI subdivisions of orbital frontal cortex and social cognition
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04/01
An fMRI investigation of racial paralysis
We explore the existence and underlying neural mechanism of a new norm endorsed by both black and w…
04/01
Out of touch with reality? Social perception in first-episode schizophrenia
Social dysfunction has been recognized as an elementary feature of schizophrenia, but it remains a …
04/01
Autistic traits are associated with diminished neural response to affective touch
‘Social brain’ circuitry has recently been implicated in processing slow, gentle touch …
04/01
Affect-specific activation of shared networks for perception and execution of facial expressions
Previous studies have shown overlapping neural activations for observation and execution or imitati…
04/01
Imaging depletion: fMRI provides new insights into the processes underlying ego depletion*
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04/01
Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment
In the context of chronic childhood emotional maltreatment (CEM; emotional abuse and/or neglect), a…
04/01
Rationality and emotionality: serotonin transporter genotype influences reasoning bias
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04/01
Self-regulatory depletion increases emotional reactivity in the amygdala
The ability to self-regulate can become impaired when people are required to engage in successive a…
04/01
Empathy for the social suffering of friends and strangers recruits distinct patterns of brain activation
Humans observe various peoples’ social suffering throughout their lives, but it is unknown wh…
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As an undergraduate at UC Davis, Patrick Yau had the opportunity to work at the Visualization and Graphics Research Group in the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV). He was under the guidance of Professor Bernd Hamann and Dr. Lars Linsen when he and his colleagues developed the project "Brain Mapping via Hierarchical Isosurface Segmentation Based on Discrete Curvature".The idea of the project is to look into the surface of two brains and identify the similarities between then. They focused in particular on the curvature of the brains (folds and bumps). Yau worked on data preprocessing and the automated brain mapping algorithm. He wrote a procedure that automatically identifies the front, side and the top for two brains using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and he also wrote a procedure that constructs a topology graph based on the curvature of a brain. The two images shown here reveal different representations of the same brain: as points and as a topology graph.
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